How Do I Find the Partition GUID?

I'm new to server administration and I've been looking for a way to find the GUID of a partition on a hard drive.  I've read a lot of articles on GPT and partitioning in general, and I reviewed all the articles suggested in the Related Topics section
that opens up when a person goes to post a question in these forums, and thus far nothing I've read has given me the answer.
I can find the GUID of the hard drive, but drives can contain multiple partitions, and I'd like to be able to find the GUID for any partition.  I'd like to use a script to retrieve the partition GUIDs for a drive, but I'd also like to be able to get
the GUIDs manually as a check against the script results.
Can anyone tell me how to find the GUIDs for the partitions on a drive?
Thanks for any help that you can offer.
--Tom

I understand perfectly thankyou.
However, you can have a partition on a disk that doesnt necessarily have a volume in windows.
A volume must have a partition that it is applied to, however a partition doesnt always have to have a volume, a single partition can also contain multiple volumes (extended partitions if you will, where multiple logical drives can be created within it)
You can refer to the following reference for the differences between a volume and a partition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_(computing)
Regardless of which, the powershell command I provided still provides the solution to the original query
If you would like further evidence of the difference between partitions and volumes as far as windows is concerned, you can refer to the WMI namespace for each
This will return all of the partitions that exist (powershell)
GWMI -namespace root\cimv2 -class win32_DiskPartition
This will return all of the volumes that exist (powershell)
GWMI -namespace root\cimv2 -class win32_volume
Notice how there are more volumes than partitions?
So, as I said before, I don't believe windows assigns GUID's to partitions, but it does to Volumes.
Kriss Milne, MCSE | Infrastructure Specialist

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